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Leadership & Professional Education

The National P-3 Center focuses on systemic strategies that increase and support effective, cross-sector approaches to improving the preschool-through-3rd-grade years (0-8). Our approach to leadership and professional education is based on a deep understanding that one-time workshops are not effective in changing adult behaviors or in creating meaningful improvements in children's learning opportunities. Our leadership and professional education efforts are infused with a combination of extended learning time, team-based approaches, and a deep commitment to applying new knowledge to real-world work.

Update: Due to the changing P-3 landscape in Washington state, applications, enrollment, and launch for the 2018 Washington P-3 Executive Leadership Certificate Program will be delayed for approximately six to nine months. During this time Program staff will synthesize what we have

Coming in October 2018!
The National P-3 Institute provides an intensive professional education opportunity for collaborative teams to deepen and extend their strategic efforts to implement P-3 approaches that create meaningful change -- specifically, approaches that improve the

On this site, "PreK-3rd Grade" is used interchangeably with "P-3". Both terms are intended to reflect the importance of aligning across birth-to-five (0-5) and K-12 classrooms and systems. The vision for P-3 approaches is to improve the quality and coherence of children's learning opportunities, from the experiences children have in early learning (including PreK, Head Start, child care, and other early learning opportunities before -- or "pre" -- formal entry into school) and extending through elementary school.